Quotes from berger john ii

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

Art is an organized response to what nature allows us to glimpse occasionally. Art sets out to transform the potential recognition into an unceasing one.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

To be naked is to be without disguises.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.

The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event -- either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.